As of late-2010, the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force,
which total about 850,000 men and women, have 15 full generals on active duty
and five pending confirmation, for a total of twenty, compared with four
Generals of the Army and 14 full generals on active duty at peak strength in
the Spring of 1945, when their personnel totaled some 8.5 million.

In 1764, Frederick the Great proposed establishing a
special military school in which some 15 or so promising young officers would
receive special tutoring in the arts, sciences, protocol, languages, diplomacy,
manners, and so forth from a half-dozen or so noted scholars and specialists,
among whom he hoped to include Giacomo Casanova, who turned him down.

Introduced to Wellington,
a visiting American said, "Pleased to meet you, sir", to which the
Duke replied icily "And you damned well ought to be."

When, in October of 1870, 63-year old Giuseppe
Garibaldi sailed with a band of volunteers to help the French fight the
Prussians, a Deputy arose in Parliament to ask, "Now that these people
have left Italy,
what work is there for the police? "

Beginning in September of 1941, several RAF Hurricane
squadrons operated out of Archangel, in the
Soviet far north, but as they were very difficult to support properly, the
personnel were withdrawn in December and the aircraft turned over to the Red
Air Force.

During the entire seventeenth century, there were only
two years in which there were no international wars somewhere in Europe, 1670 and 1682.

The first Japanese attempt to storm Port Arthur, on
August 7-8, 1904, left only six of the 56 line officers of the 44th Infantry
Regiment unscathed, the commander and five lieutenants, the rest having all either
been killed or wounded.

During the opening weeks of World War I, in August of
1914, a rumor spread through Britain
that several divisions of Russian troops had landed in the country for transfer
to France,
many still with snow on their boots.